Wound scanner picks out infection

• Autores: Clare Wilson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3157-3158, 2017, pág. 14
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The surgeon was poised to carry out a skin graft when he decided to try out an experimental device to check for infection. Called the MolecuLight i:X, it shows the presence of bacteria in real time as an eerie fluorescent glow. The patient was a 47-year-old man whose leg had been amputated above the knee. He had endured one infection already and the surgeon didn't want to risk another. One look through the machine, however, and the operation was called off. The wound glowed red at the edge, showing it was riddled with bacteria that would probably have caused the skin graft to fail. When the wound was swabbed and tested in the lab it confirmed that harmful bacteria were present.